Choi Auditorium

Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez was born in Managua, Nicaragua but calls Nashville, Tennessee home. She got her Masters of Divinity from Vanderbilt University in the Spring of 2015. The bulk of her work is around making accessible, through storytelling and curating content, the theories and heavy material that is oftentimes only taught in the racist/classist institutions known as academia.

This event is sponsored by the Intercultural Community Center and the departments of Critical Theory and Social Justice, Politics, Sociology, and Urban and Environmental Policy with funding generously provided by the Remsen Bird Fund. This lecture will be recorded for those who cannot attend in person. 

*This event will require the use of a mask and will follow all COVID-19 safety guidelines set out by the College.

Professor Dolores Trevizo’s research examines why vigilantes in Mexico illegally armed themselves in the name of enforcing the law between 2012-2015. Her talk will focus on those organized groups who declared they were providing security in specific places and whose collective actions were sustained for several weeks. 

A reception will follow the lecture on the Hameetman Career Center patio at 5:30 p.m.

About the Sterling Award

You can watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/6BS27ngZtxg

Open to the Oxy Community 

Presentations:

Friday, February 21st: 

Leah Healy: "La guerra sucia: El género y la mirada en obras argentinas" 

Xavier Nelson-Rowntree: "Una crítica de la masculinidad marxista en el paso de la historia" 

Alessandra Pelliccia: "La relación queer en un contexto materno en El beso de la mujer araña"

Emma Robitaille: "La liberación en la oscuridad: Un examen del queerness en El beso de la mujer araña" 

Presentations include: 

Friday, February 14th: 

Alana Adelman: "Desafiando el travestismo del espectador en Te doy mis ojos: Una crítica de la teoría de la mirada masculina de Laura Mulvey"

Natalie Arbogast: "La falla del marxismo tradicional y una aparición del posmarxismo en El beso de la mujer araña: El poder realista de la dialéctica"

Ivy Denham-Conroy: "Un estudio de Molina y Valentín: El reaprendizaje del género y la sexualidad en El beso de la mujer araña"

Named one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World,” Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha continues to work to mitigate the impact of the water crisis on Flint’s children. In her book, What the Eyes Don’t See, and her speeches, she motivates audiences to speak out against injustice.

Following the lecture, Dr. Hanna-Attisha will be signing her book from 2 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. on the AGC steps between Johnson and Fowler. Copies will be available for purchase. 

Sonya Renee Taylor's visit will focus on radical self-care within activist communities. Sonya is the first speaker in a series presented by the Intercultural Community Center and black student leaders titled the "365 series". This collaborative and dynamic series of programming will recognize black history, black lives, and blackness at Oxy and beyond. Most importantly, it aims to send an important message: February is only a starting place in the celebration and acknoweldgement of black history.